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Meet the Cook: When I was married, 26 years ago, I bought two popular cookbooks to learn the "basics". Now, I have over 2,000 cookbooks, booklets and recipe magazines I read like others read novels! I take my bread - which I've been making for 20 years - to potlucks and parties. Plus, my family's always loved it. My husband and I have two grown daughters and one granddaughter. -Helen Richards
16 Servings
Prep: 15 min. Bake: 45 min. + cooling
2 cups
King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1-1/2 cups sugar,
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg
1/4 cup canola oil
3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
1-1/2 to 2 teaspoons milk
In a large bowl, combine the flour, 1 cup sugar, baking soda and
salt. Combine buttermilk, egg and oil; stir into dry ingredients
just until moistened. In a small bowl, combine cinnamon and
remaining sugar.
Grease the bottom only of a 9-in. x 5-in. loaf pan. Pour half of the
batter into pan; sprinkle with half of the cinnamon-sugar. Carefully
spread with remaining batter and sprinkle with remaining
cinnamon-sugar; cut through batter with a knife to swirl.
Bake at 350° for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near
the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from
pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Combine confectioners' sugar
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and enough milk to reach desired consistency; drizzle over loaf.
Yield: 1 loaf.
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1 serving (1 slice) equals 179 calories, 4 g fat (1 g saturated fat), 14 mg cholesterol, 173 mg sodium, 34 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 3 g protein.
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Title: Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi Price: $35.00Availability: Major book retailers
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Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi grew up on two different sides of one city. Sami was a child in Muslim east-Jerusalem, with Yotam in the Jewish west. Although being born in the same city and in the same year, the two didn't meet until nearly three decades later - world's away in London UK. Becoming close friends and business partners (Tamimi is part owner of Ottolenghi's eponymous chain of restaurants and the co-author of Ottolenghi: The Cookbook (Ebury Press, 2008).) the two began to explore their parallel childhoods, and the city so rich in culture that is their common bond.
Ottolenghi's latest follows the New York Times bestseller Plenty (Chronicle Books, 2011) which was an ode to vegetables with a collection of fresh and original plant-based fare. Jerusalem's focus is on the traditional, with 120 age-old recipes based on the rich cultural traditions of the Mediterranean, and the flavours that are embedded in both Ottolenghi and Tamimi's DNA. Some recipes are classics, some have benefitted from creative updates and lastly others are inspired by the flavours of the city itself.
The spirit of Jerusalem is wound through the book, with a brief introduction outlining the history of the city and its complicated past. Photographer Jonathan Lovekin showcases gorgeous food images alongside more candid snaps of everyday life. While the book's recipes focus on its namesake city, There are dishes with Palestinian and Georgian influence as well. Jerusalem is a cultural melting pot and home to Jews originating from Russia, Poland, Tunisia, Libya, France, Britain, Iraq, Ethiopia, Argentina as well as Christians and Muslims. The result is a complex and cosmopolitan book full of the unpredictable, family recipes, heart-warming nods to childhood, and a wonderful homage to the city from which the book takes its name.
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Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Fresh Figs
4 small sweet potatoes (2 lb / 1 kg in total)5 tbsp olive oilscant 3 tbsp / 40 ml balsamic vinegar (you can use a commercial rather than a premium aged grade)1 tbsp / 20 g superfine sugar12 green onions, halved lengthwise and cut into 1-in / 4cm segments1 red chile, thinly sliced6 ripe figs (8 oz / 240 g in total), quartered5 oz / 150 g soft goat's milk cheese (optional)Maldon sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 475°F / 240°C.Wash the sweet potatoes, halve them lengthwise, and then cut each half again similarly into 3 long wedges. Mix with 3 tablespoons of the olive oil, 2 teaspoons salt, and some black pepper. Spread the wedges out, skin side down, on a baking sheet and cook for about 25 minutes, until soft but not mushy. Remove from the oven and leave to cool down.To make the balsamic reduction, place the balsamic vinegar and sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, then decrease the heat and simmer for 2 to 4 minutes, until it thickens. Be sure to remove the pan from the heat when the vinegar is still runnier than honey; it will continue to thicken as it cools. Stir in a drop of water before serving if it does become too thick to drizzle.Arrange the sweet potatoes on a serving platter. Heat the remaining oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat and add the green onions and chile. Fry for 4 to 5 minutes, stirring often to make sure not to burn the chile. Spoon the oil, onions, and chile over the sweet potatoes. Dot the figs among the wedges and then drizzle over the balsamic reduction. Serve at room temperature. Crumble the cheese over the top, if using.
Excerpted from Jerusalem. Copyright © 2012 Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. Published by Appetite by Random House Canada, which is a division of Random House of Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.
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Photo by Daniel Kucin Jr. The National Federation of State High School Associations implemented rule changes to prevent football players from getting injured when their helmets come off during games.
Published on: Wednesday, August 28, 2013
By Daniel Kucin Jr.
The National Federation of State High School Associations has implemented new rule changes to reduce injuries among high school football players.
In an effort to minimize the risk of injury in high school football, NFHS added three additional new rules to take effect this season. These rules prevent players from losing their helmets during games.
There were also 10 rule changes approved by the federation in front of the NFHS Board of Directors earlier this year. Players are required to sit out one play if their helmet comes off while the ball is live, and the committee approved three additional rules that are extensions of last year's rule change.
"Players' safety has been and will continue to be the top priority for members of the NFHS Football Rules Committee," said Brad Garrett, chair of the NFHS Football Rules Committee and assistant executive director of the Oregon School Activities Association. "These rule changes are regarding helmetless players are more examples of the group's commitment to minimize risk within the game."
In addition to these changes, there is a new listing in Rule 9-6-4, which states that it is illegal participation "for a player whose helmet comes completely off during a down to continue to participate beyond the immediate action in which the player is engaged."
"With its continued focus on risk minimization, the committee determined that a helmetless player shall not block, tackle or otherwise participate beyond the immediate action in which the player is engaged when the helmet came completely off," said Bob Colgate, NFHS director of sports and medicine.
The committee added additional language to Rule 3-5-10 to clarify that if the helmet comes completely off during the down or subsequent dead-ball action related to the down — and is not directly attributable to a foul by the opponent — the player must leave the field for a least one down.
A rule that is sure to change the way the game will be played this season is a revision on the Pass Interference Penalty. The 15-yard penalty will remain for both offensive and defensive pass interference, but the loss of a down has been removed for offensive pass interference. The automatic first down has been eliminated from defensive pass interference.
"Offensive and defensive pass interference, and the penalty structure related to these fouls has been debated many times in recent years," Garrett said. "Proposals that either deleted the loss of down or the automatic first down — but not both — failed to gain support among committee members. The proposal to eliminate both components, thus not upsetting the balance between offense and defense, was the key factor in the adoption of the new rule."


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The port city of Douala is Cameroon's biggest and busiest, with a hot, tropical temperament that cools only briefly when the monsoon rains fall. It may not be the official capital but does still remain the hub for Cameroonian business and pleasure.
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Grilled fish at street stalls or European fine dining. Dine in upscale French and Italian restaurants with white-linen tablecloths in lively Akwa or Douala's Bonapriso business district. At street stalls all over the city Douala's women char-grill freshly caught fish cooked in delicious peanut sauce – wander along Ave Ahmadou Ahidjo for the best selection.
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Urban vibe and day trips into Africa's hot heart. A brightly lit studio, innovative L'espace Doual'art eschews traditional African crafts for contemporary works. Hire a driver or take a minibus two hours' south of Douala to Kribi for its golden sand and shallow seas. From the chilled-out port of Limbe, an hour north, glimpse West Africa's tallest, Mount Cameroon.
Market shopping for African arts and crafts. Shop for traditional craftwork and curios in Douala's bustling Akwa shopping district, or seek them out at Douala's Marché de Fleur. Locals create a hive of activity buying fresh fruit and meat produce amid Cameroonian footballer, Sameul Eto'o shirts at Lagos Market.
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Third and final interview was scheduled with the store manager -- the boss hog! Once you make it to this point, you've pretty much got the job. Supervisors and managers are held responsible if they waste the store manager's time with a prospect that will not fit the culture of Best Buy or make a good salesperson. That's not to say, however, that you can't be rejected at this stage. If you say or do something that the store manager doesn't like he can reject you. However, if your brief interaction with him goes well, expect to be made an offer and to be asked to sign paperwork confirming your employment.
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AAJ: Doug Wamble. Is he managing to slip through a crack in the door yet?
BM: No. No. He's not selling yet. But I believe in his music.
AAJ: Although he's the least known artist on the label, it would seem that he has the best shot at breaking through the barriers?
BM: (He has) more accessibility, but because he loves jazz so much and he's influenced by jazz music, he's determined to play jazz tunes and because we live in such a fragmented societyif every song on the record was like "Baby If You Love Me," people would like it but then they'd also say "Why the hell is he on Marsalis Music?" And then you have a situation where you have a swinging song like "Sweet Magnolia Tree," but the jazz stations say we ain't going to play this record because it's not a jazz record. There's like these built-in biases. And... that's okay because I think in some ways jazz needs to be more biased rather than musicians allowing a lot of mediocre music to masquerade as jazz. So I'm not really against that per se, I just believe that guys like Miguel and guys like Doug are going to have to go out and hit the road and develop their own clientele. I think that is ultimately within the best interest of every artistthat they really believe in themselves and understand that sometimes you must go and play a club where you're not going to make no money and take a hit in order to enhance your profile among the people who frequent those places. And to just develop your clientele. And the amount of money that musicians waste on shit like demos and photographs and press clippings... I mean I'm not going to hire a musician because I like his resume. I'm going to hire a musician because I like the way he sounds.
AAJ: Okay, lets get to that part. Are you going crazy? Are hundreds of people sending you demo tapes? Are all of your friends hitting on you for record dates?
BM: Thousands. Thousands. Yeah, but it doesn't matter; that's fine. I mean I understand the power of "no" and no real friend would try to pressure me to do some stuff like that. And if they do then I know they're not a real friend, so it's okay because you learn either way.
AAJ: Do you do a lot of listening to demo tapes?
BM: Yeah. Bob Blumenthal listens to a lot more than I do and narrows it down. We'll sit down then and listen to them together or play them and talk on the phone about it. I mean the group thing is crucial. The whole idea that like... My dad told me a really cool story. Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with jazz was that there were too few groups and that all the club owners he'd talk to talk about that. And my dad said, "Well I loved Trane, but I thought he was crazy." And the reason he thought he was crazy was that because he lived in Louisiana, whenever he bought a Lee Morgan record he saw four names on it and he thought that was a group. He didn't think of it as just a session. He thought that because in New Orleans he had his group. He had his boys and they all played together, but that was out of necessity because there ain't but five dudes in New Orleans who wanted to play jazz and they all played together. But in New York you see it now where guys go out and they call cats and everybody does sessions. It has this general kind of functionality, but they don't have that spark that the music that Mingus had or that Miles had or Trane had. Because the groupthere's no groups like Buhaina's group.
AAJ: The Messengers are the prime example of that because Art tried to keep a group together. Even though a lot of those editions of the Messengers were really just sessions, when you listen to the records by the real groups like Freddie, Wayne, Curtis, Cedar and Reggie, you can hear the difference.
BM: That's right. And I think that that's our focus. That's our primary focus.
AAJ: Well you have a band. Miguel has a band. Wamble definitely has a band. There are so few real bands out here, so I guess that that focus makes it a little easier for you to find what you're looking for.
BM: Yeah, we don't have to... we don't have market expectations; we don't have people... we don't have to make records with people. We don't have to do it. You know what I mean? Like I told them that (when they ask) "How many records do you want to release a year?" I said "Well that depends on the people who are playing. If there ain't no good shit out there, then we ain't going to release no records. There's no emphasis on... Like you could do a formula like GRP did, where you release twenty records a year, amass a catalogue and then sell it off for sixteen million dollars. That's a smart business model because the people who decide to purchase record companies don't really listen to music so they cannot evaluate taste. All they can evaluate is volume, so it doesn't even matter whether the record is good or whether the record is bad. It's just the volume of it. It's just the catalogue. The "catalogue" is the thing that they focus on.
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American Express found another way to convert social media to cardholder transactions at the SXSW conference using the still-private Smart Offer API. Amex's "Sync. Tweet. Save." social marketing promotion positions the credit card for the social media generation beyond membership points.
The Smart Offer API provided detailed reporting to merchants about spending behavior of customers during the SXSW conference. American Express Cardholders were able to link eligible cards to Twitter via sync.americanexpress.com. When they tweet special offer hashtags, savings load onto their cards without the use of a coupon. Savings statements from online and in-store purchases at qualifying merchants are then delivered within days.
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Not so long ago, many believed the advent of social media would contribute to more substantive discourse in modern campaigns.
But no such luck in our hotly contested presidential race. Sideshows have ruled the day. From caged dogs on car roofs to birth certificates to out-of-context alleged gaffes, it's been "gotcha politics" played out in real time.
If it seems the daily one-hit wonder stories enjoy a longer than normal shelf life, they do. Well-financed super PACs are at least partly to blame. They have the ability to sustain a nonstory for weeks through relentless 30-second attack ads. And the coffers are always well-stocked with wealthy benefactors from the right and left.
The tenor of Campaign 2012 has contributed to the problem as well. Some on the right continue to focus on issues (Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, community activists) that were litigated four years ago. That the president's background and worldview were not fully vetted by a compliant media in 2008 is now beside the point. This election is about the president's record over the past four years — and whether the American people want more of the same over the next four years.
From the left, it's been a bellicose campaign of class envy. "Hope" and "change" are long forgotten. Today, it's all about division: black vs. white, poor vs. wealthy, urban vs. rural — and, to a lesser extent, secular vs. religious.
These dueling narratives make for delicious confrontations, which in turn lead the nightly (or is it hourly?) news. But they fail to educate. They fail to require the candidates to engage in "second level" thinking where the "why" is as important as the "what."
It was with this background that the candidates appeared in Denver on Wednesday night. Finally, an opportunity to observe two smart men engage in substantive debate. At long last, real conversation without the low road of innuendo and outright falsehood.
Some of us hoped for a credible conversation about the realities of a $16 trillion national debt and unsustainable entitlement spending. Others desired an honest analysis of what a fully implemented "Obamacare" will mean for the cost and quality of American health care. Everyone wanted (and deserved) a heavy dose of the kind of dialogue dispensed by serious leaders in serious times.
For the most part, that's what we got. And it was pretty entertaining to boot.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney displayed the form exhibited during the GOP primaries. He was crisp, nimble and well prepared. Importantly, he demonstrated the type of focused delivery that looked ... well, presidential.
In the process, the Romney campaign accomplished its primary goal: raising a likability factor that had taken a major hit since the "47 percent" video was leaked in mid-September. That leak and the Democrats' skillful manipulation of the comment into their "Mitt is out of touch" narrative had bumped President Barack Obama into a slight lead in a number of toss-up states.
In Denver, the challenger was still the CEO driving an unapologetic pro-business agenda. Such is the essential Romney, like it or not. But this night, for the first time in the general election campaign, an empathetic leader emerged: a leader with a determination (and plan) to strengthen America's romanticized but besieged middle class.
Almost predictably, the president appeared flat, robotic and increasingly frustrated with the proceedings.
Despite my Romney stripes, I was somewhat empathetic regarding this general mindset. It's more difficult being the incumbent. An incumbent has a record. Records are fair game. And this particular record is not so shiny — particularly with regard to the U.S. economy.
So the president took his lumps while answering with mostly familiar campaign themes: The wealthy fail to pay their fair share; the Obama Administration inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression; and Obamacare is a good deal for America.
On this night, however, the lines fell flat.
All voters beware. There are two remaining presidential debates. There will be a vice presidential debate. And don't forget the thousands of ads, millions of dollars and zillions of polls yet to come.
In political terms, that's a lifetime — maybe two.
Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s column appears Sundays. The former Maryland governor and member of Congress is a partner at the law firm King & Spalding, the author of "Turn this Car Around," a book about national politics, and Maryland chairman for the Romney presidential campaign. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The BSE Sensex rose 2.29 per cent to close provisionally at 20,882.89 and the broader NSE Nifty ended 2.37 per cent higher.
Foreign institutional investors bought 11.09 billion rupees worth of Indian shares on Thursday, a tenth consecutive session of purchases that bought their total to 78.47 billion rupees.
Earlier, snapping its two-day losing streak, the BSE Sensex rose by more than 400 points to 20,842 on fresh buying by funds amid a firming market trend on other Asian bourses. Gains are being led by defensive and banking shares, especially ICICI Bank.
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Medical technology: The first commercial retinal implant is about to go on sale. It may be crude, but so were the first cochlear implants, 26 years ago
THAT it is possible to have a phone conversation with someone who is deaf shows just how far cochlear implants have come. Today's devices, which are routinely implanted, can stimulate the auditory nerve across a broad range of frequencies. This allows users to hear and understand speech in noisy environments, without needing to lip-read, and even to hear and appreciate music in many cases. But the earliest cochlear implants could do none of this; instead they merely provided some basic sounds to assist with lip-reading. Nevertheless, when they first received clinical approval, 26 years ago, they were hailed as a medical miracle. Now retinal implants are at a similar point, as the first such device is about to be granted clinical approval in Europe and will then go on sale.
The device, called the Argus II, is by no means a cure for blindness, says Robert Greenberg, the chief executive and co-founder of Second Sight, the company in Sylmar, California, that developed it. It is intended for use by people who have lost their sight as a result of retina-wasting diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, and like the earliest cochlear implants it is designed to provide only some basic sensory assistance. But despite its limitations all 30 of the people who have received the Argus II as part of clinical trials can, at the very least, now see changes in light levels and detect objects. This means that they can navigate around obstacles, find doorways, see parked or moving cars and look at someone's head when talking to them. A handful of them can even read large print.
For the researchers who have spent many years developing these devices, and for the hundreds of thousands of blind people who stand to gain from them, the approval of the Argus II will mark an important turning-point. "The blind community have been waiting for this for decades," says Lyndon da Cruz, a consultant retinal surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, who has already implanted seven of the devices as part of the trials. "It's almost unbelievable that it's coming to market," he says. "Very few people would have expected that there could be an artificial retinal device on the market by 2011."
To get this approval Second Sight had to show that the benefits of the device outweighed the potential risks, says Dr Greenberg. The principles behind retinal implants are well established, he says. But it is one thing to build a prototype to demonstrate these principles and quite another creating a device that can be implanted for long-term use.
There are several different ways to build a retinal implant, but all of them use the same underlying mechanism. By electrically stimulating remaining healthy nerve cells in the retina using an electrode, sensations of light can be elicited in the person's visual field, thus mimicking the action of light-sensitive photoreceptors that were damaged by disease. The more electrodes you have, the more dots the person sees (the Argus II has 60). And so if you place enough of them in a rectangular array, and zap them according to signals fed wirelessly from a camera mounted in a pair of spectacles worn by the subject, blocky images start to take shape.
A number of research groups have demonstrated this over the past couple of decades, but until now none has managed to develop a retinal-array interface that could be left safely in the body, says Mr da Cruz. The problem is not simply that the interface might pose a risk to the patient—the device must also be robust enough to survive within the harsh environment of the body. Dr Greenberg likens it to designing a television set that can be thrown into the sea and will not only continue to work but will do so for decades to come.
Second Sight has succeeded by building on several decades of research into implantable devices and other neural interfaces, such as pacemakers and cochlear implants. The Argus I, Second Sight's first experimental prototype, actually used a signal processor originally designed for cochlear implants. (It had just 16 electrodes, was implanted in six patients and was never intended for market.) The company was founded in 1998 by Dr Greenberg and Sam Williams, an American philanthropist and engineer who suffered from retinitis pigmentosa and was frustrated by the slow pace of public research efforts. Sadly Dr Greenberg's co-founder died in 2009, just a year short of realising his goal of creating a commercial retinal implant.
But he leaves behind a legacy that will benefit thousands of people. The Argus II will initially be made available via hospitals in London, Manchester, Paris and Geneva, and—once it receives approval from the Food and Drug Administration—in America. Second Sight expects about 100 devices to be implanted in its first year on sale; with a price tag of $100,000 only a limited number of people will be able to afford it. This may seem steep, says Dr Greenberg, but it's similar to what the first cochlear implants cost. As government reimbursement schemes kick in, the device should become more affordable and widely available, he says.
And as more people receive the device, the technology should improve, says Mr da Cruz. The trials so far have shown that, for reasons that remain unclear, some patients appear to benefit more than others from the device. As it becomes more widespread, the reasons for this should become clear.
Looking further ahead, Second Sight is already conducting animal trials on the Argus III, which is expected to have several hundred electrodes. Other researchers are also working on similar technologies, including Eberhardt Zrenner, director of the Institute for Ophthalmic Research at the University of Tübingen in Germany. Dr Zrenner's company, Retina Implant, is developing a device which contains the camera within the eye and has more than 1,500 electrodes.
Natural vision is extraordinarily powerful, so it is unlikely that implants will ever be able to offer anything quite as rich, says Mr da Cruz. But as cochlear implants have shown, the technology that first reaches the market is very different from what is available 20 years later. As the number of electrodes increases and signal-processing software improves, it is not unthinkable to imagine a blind person in 2037 reading an article marvelling at how far the technology has come.
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'Tis the season for big name game releases and I was recently given the chance to spend a few hours with one of them. It's always a treat to be one of the first people to sit down and play a game that will eventually be in the hands of millions of gamers, but this preview stood head and shoulders above the rest. In order to get a hands-on test of EA's latest Need for Speed release, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, I had to fly to Leipzig, Germany.
I have to confess that I am somewhat of a poor traveler in general, and particularly so when crossing multiple time zones. When the offer was made to cross no less than six time zones, I had to think about it for, well, less than a second. Why the easy decision? Well, it was because EA had gone the extra mile and sweetened the pot considerably. The hands-on play sessions were to be hosted by the Porsche Driving School in Leipzig, and as part of the event we would be given the opportunity to not only ride in a very high-powered car under the control of a professional driver, but we would also get a chance to drive (at a much slower pace, of course) some of Porsche's finer products ourselves. As I said, it was an easy decision!
The trip over the ocean was every bit as physically uncomfortable as I had expected it to be; I don't know what it is about Germans that causes them to build seats that provide zero lumbar support, but that design methodology has clearly infected the folks at Lufthansa. No more than ten minutes in the seat, nowhere near even pushing back from the gate, was enough for my back to be screaming in protest. That situation did not get any better in the next seven hours of flying, but it was somewhat mitigated by the world class service offered up by the Lufthansa flight attendants.
Traveling to a foreign country is always difficult if one doesn't speak the language, but it's even tougher if one is careless enough to arrive on a weekend (when the banks are closed) with none of the local currency in hand. Which is precisely what I did. Fortunately, the crowd of gaming journalists heading for Leipzig was big enough that I inevitably ran into a few others on the way. At least one of them had the foresight to bring money, so I was able to borrow enough to buy a train ticket from the Leipzig airport into town. Amongst the Band of Four that teamed up at the airport, though, I was the only one that had thought to bring a printed Google map to help find our hotel once we reached the downtown Leipzig train station. Teamwork at its finest!
The hotel was spectacular, but seemed to have been designed with a strong form-over-function bias. I was not alone in the difficulties I encountered in what should have been simple things like turning on the lights. For awhile it seemed as if my normal luck was holding true and I was the only one to get a room with no electricity. I was somewhat embarrassed to later report to the gang that it had taken me a good fifteen minutes to figure out that the key card had to be put in a wall slot to get the power to come on. I felt a little better when I found out that one of the guys had resorted to using his iPhone as a flashlight to find his way around in his room after the sun had set.
The gang that met in the hotel lobby the next morning for the bus ride out to the Porsche facility numbered close to fifty. This was a pretty big deal indeed! As we got off the bus and moved into the Porsche lobby, we were separated into two groups. We were each required to sign a liability release form, the most frightening aspect of the contract being the stipulation that we would be individually on the hook for 2,500 Euro if we wrecked one of the cars. Not a bad deal if I was allowed to keep the husk, but that probably wasn't what they intended. With the form signed, the two groups were split, with one group heading out to the paved track to drive Porsche road cars, and the other group (my group) heading out to a line of Porsche Cayennes. We would be driving the Porsche SUVs on an off road track.
The Cayenne that I selected was one of the more powerful available with a strong engine married to a turbo, but I figured that was just lipstick on a hog. To test that theory, I let a gap build up between me and the truck in front of me, with the sole goal being to get some clear road in front of me so I could see what happened if I punched the gas to the floor. I'm here to tell you, truck or not, that thing really scoots! Once we got to the off-road course, I also found out that it can climb a 45 degree slope and can ford water traps that come up to the floorboards. As interesting as that was, I couldn't tear my mind away from the high-powered sports cars waiting for me back at the paved track.
The process at the paved track was very similar to that used at the off-road track. We were paired with a co-driver, and we would change seats after each lap. Once we had both driven a given car, we would move to the next car in front of us. The drivers of the frontmost car would move to the end of the line. Since we would be strictly forbidden from passing the car in front of us, I wanted to make sure we never ended up at the back of the line stuck behind someone that couldn't keep up. With that in mind, I picked out a nice Carrera 4 Turbo located in the front third of the line to start in. That turned out to not be the greatest choice since the leader set the first couple of laps at a very slow (or so it seemed to me) speed, so I couldn't really exercise the turbo. replayed my trick from the SUVs and let a large enough gap build up that I could get a reasonable feel for the acceleration capabilities (very good!) of the car, and that also gave me a chance to play with the paddle shifters. I have to say, I was downshifting that thing like I didn't own it because, well.... I don't. There is nothing on this planet that sings a more seductive sound than an aggressively downshifted Porsche! It roars, burbles, and pops like a dyspeptic dragon. Pure auditory bliss!!
By the fourth round we had moved very close to the front of the line, and even better we were sitting in a Porsche Carerra GTS. Now if you consider that the typical Carerra is what could be called a "trackable road car," the GTS moves the needle closer to being a "roadable track car." We had also gotten to the point where the front of the pack was moving at a pace that could be considered pretty fast. It was turning out that my initial choice of car could not have been better! It was looking like I would get to drive the fastest car on the track at the fastest pace of the day!
My co-driver, as it turned out, had a different idea.
As we were exiting the last chicane before the straight, he, for reasons I still cannot fathom, kept his foot planted in the gas and drove us right over the curb and into the dirt. As if that wasn't bad enough, we were flying across the dirt pointed directly at a retaining wall and all I could hear was "GGGRRRRRR!!!!" coming from the engine. As I yelled "GET OFF THE GAS!!!" he shifted the unwarranted pressure on the accelerator to a panic-induced slam on the brake pedal, while simultaneously yanking the steering wheel to the left. This had the (maybe deliberate, probably not) effect of causing the car to slide sideways towards the wall, with my side of the car being the side having an appointment with infamy. All I remember thinking was, "Hmm, this might hurt." and "Gee, I hope this guy has 2,500 Euro, because I think he just spent it!" Luckily, we slid to a stop in a cloud of dust about four feet from the wall.
It was at this point that the leader got on the radio and asked just what we thought we were doing. No answer from us, of course, since it was a transmit-only radio, but I was pretty sure we would have a face-to-face meeting back in the pits. And, we did. It was my turn to drive then, but the leader quite petulantly got on the radio and said that "Now we must go slow."
After lunch we all gathered in a small theatre to get a briefing from Criterion's Lead Designer for Need for Speed: Most Wanted. He attempted to explain just what it meant to be "most wanted," but to be honest it was somewhat of a muddled message. It seems as if they went through a number of different possibilities during the game design and the one that stuck was that the game has the player in search of the most wanted cars. Having played the game for four hours now, in retrospect I'm still not sure if that definition matches 100% with the game experience.
Our first two hours were single player and I had opted to play on the PC platform. We were led to a couple of large rooms that normally provide garage facilities for the school cars, but now had a few dozen comfy chairs placed in front of large TVs, each attached to a PC or game console. As I started playing the game, I was struck by one thing: FINALLY someone has developed a game that addresses my pet peeve with racing games. I have always resented having to unlock cars that I already paid for. There is none of that (well, almost none) in Most Wanted.
The tagline for Most Wanted is "If you can find it, you can drive it." That should not be mistaken for a Grand Theft Auto type of gameplay where you can just walk up to any car in the "world" and steal it. The way it works in Most Wanted is that there are dozens of licensed cars, ranging from a Ford pickup truck to high-end speedsters such as Maseratis, placed in various locations in the city. As you drive around, you will see them with the manufacturer's logo hovering over the top of them somewhat like a beacon. You simply pull up next to the car and it's yours. There is no garage model per se; the cars just stay wherever you leave them and you can teleport back to any car you have taken from anywhere in the city.
As I noted above, there are some exceptions to this manner of finding cars. There are some select cars that are the "most wanted," and you won't find those just lying around town ripe for the plucking. To get those cars, you have to earn the right to race against the current owner. If you beat him, you can then take his car, but he won't let go of it easily. You have to win it by "taking him out," which does NOT imply dinner and a movie. You have to wreck him. So, the storyline behind Most Wanted, such as it is, is kind of a mixed bag. The intro video describes a city that is plagued by very capable street racers and the top ten of these racers are the most wanted by the police. Later in the game, though, 'most wanted' seems to refer to their cars, not their status with local law enforcement. Fortunately none of the murkiness of the underlying story really matters. It's a Need for Speed game, after all, not a drama. It's all about driving fancy cars fast.
I postulated that the 'most wanted' theme may have gone through some changes as the development of the game progressed, and I say that for one reason. After spending quite a bit of time avoiding being busted by the swarm of cops that were chasing me and using Hot Pursuit style tactics to stop me, I found to my surprise that the penalty for getting caught was.... nothing. From that point on I found it far more expedient to just let them catch me so I could get back to the business of winning races. This to me seems an odd design decision to make if the dev team was working under the 'most wanted by the police' paradigm, so I suspect there may have been a late stage change to the meaning of the game. But as I said, so what? I'm racing cars, not reading a book.
The next day was multiplayer day. I'm not normally a fan of multiplayer, but this time I really got into it. Perhaps because the other players weren't anonymous avatars but were in fact right there in the room with me had something to do with it, but I had more fun than I expected. The way it works is that a collection of players are grouped together in a Speed List. (Don't hold me to the accuracy of this; I was doing more playing than recording of notes) and the list of players is enrolled in a series of races. Most of the races were Point A to Point B, but some were skill-based (most time drifting, highest speed through a speed trap, etc.) Each race was preceded by a race to the starting point of the race, and those were often just as much fun as the ensuing 'official' race. There was, of course, a lot of trying to wreck the other players involved, too. Done correctly, a player could score enough points playing wrecker to finish pretty well in the standings even if he didn't actually win the race.
I don't know if I would find all of the wrecking stuff as likeable if I was playing against a random group of strangers, though. I think it might get a bit irksome. As it was, I found the multiplayer to be somewhat aspirational. After all, who doesn't dream about getting so rich with a group of friends that they could all buy $350,000 cars and race around town wrecking into each other? Why, that's as American as apple pie!
Four hours was enough time to get a decent feel for the game, but given the sandbox style of the design I am sure there is a lot more to learn. I look forward to getting my hands on the release version and providing a more in-depth review. Stay tuned!
Editor's note: EA paid for travel and accommodations for this trip
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